It appears that the Democrat strategists in Northern Virginia believe they’ve found the secret formula for selecting candidates: clone Jim Webb. The truth is that with a Jim Webb clone, they may as well combine the genes of Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi. Throw in a little Charlie Rangel, and you’d be pretty close to the DNA of the Democrats in the House. There is no such thing as a “moderate Democrat” any more. In the Obama/Emmanuel/Pelosi/Reid world, you toe the loony-left line, or get the ax.

The Democrats are putting up Webb-clone Jeff Barnett to run against Rep. Frank Wolf. Barnett is like a bad imitation of Jim Webb’s younger brother. You can almost imagine Barnett trying on Brother Jim’s big pants at night, when no one is watching.

Like Jim, Jeff has a military background. Like Jim, Jeff talks tough in public. Like Jim, Jeff appears to be a normal, Northern Virginian retired government employee. But, just like Jim, scratch the surface and a liberal monster appears.

What you find under the surface is a loyal supporter of each and every loony scheme the far-left leaders of Jimmy-Jeff’s party concoct.

The Democrats learned long ago to hide their true beliefs and their true goals for America. Especially in a solid district like Frank Wolf’s 10th Virginia, the Democrats must conceal their true core beliefs and objectives. But Webb has a voting record he cannot conceal. Let’s look at some of his vote ratings:

Rater: NEA (Ultra-liberal, anti-child educators union); Webb’s score: A, for his unfailing support of the teachers union and administrators against freedom of education for our children.

If Jim Webb had run on the above voting record, he would not have been elected. Jim Webb, like most of the rest of the Democrat cabal roosting in our Congress provides 100% support to the raving loony left’s schemes to seize control of the economy, the auto industry, banks, the oil industry, energy, and more. Jim Webb toes the loony left line with each of the Obama/Pelosi/Reid votes for more and more socialism and less and less freedom.

And just like Jim, Jeff Barnett is a “proud” supporter of Obamacare.

And just like Jim, Jeff Barnett blames business for the housing market scandal.

And just like Jim, Jeff Barnett is scared to death to deal with the reality of the housing collapse. Jimmy-Jeff does not want us to hear about the revolving door that provided rewards from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to Democrat toadies–$90 million to Franklin Raines alone.

If you liked the housing collapse at the hands of Pelosi/Reid/Webb, then you’ll love what the Democrats have planned next–Vote Jeff Barnett!

Frank Wolf believes in accountability, and the rule of law. Frank Wolf is on the lookout for the rights of all Americans, not just select Democrat interest groups. Frank Wolf or Jimmy/Jeff Webb/Barnett. Your Virginia, your call.

That has to hurt. Thanks for all you can find, Mr. Monk. It is about time to ratchet it up.

Written by dans about 6 years ago.

What Barnett says about Obamacare :

“I was very happy to see comprehensive healthcare reform pass in late March. The only way I could have been prouder is if I had been in Congress to cast a “yea” vote myself.”

Written by Lovisa about 6 years ago.

Healthcare -

Hope you all saw the picture on the front of WashPost this morning.
Hope you all enjoy your health insurance. Those people don’t have any.

Written by squiddy about 6 years ago.

That’s the new Democrat formula, especially in the South – find some ex-military guy with good credentials, though his military resume, to my eyes, seems to have a number of minor exaggerations, such as “He assisted in negotiations with foreign leaders and was also a member of a select team that removed nuclear missiles and aircraft from unstable nations.” – as a Military Assistant to an ASD, his “assistance” probably was to ensure coffee was served, and everyone had copies of the briefing book, and pencils were sharpened, and you know he never left his office as a member of a “select team”. Minor, yes, but if you’re that qualified, why the need to exaggerate at all? Anyway, just another unknown guy who’ll toe the Pelosi Party line – I’m glad Barnett was stupid enough to make that comment about Obamacare, that’s all anyone ever need know about him.

Oh, by the way, before you forget, send Congressman Wolf some money – I have. Help counter-weight the flood of cash from SEUI, ACTBlue, etc, that’ll come if they think Barnett has a chance ..

If past elections are any guide at all, we can expect the dirty tricks to start soon – I’m sure those idiot monkey-wrencher wannabe’s that worked for Judy must still be looking for work.

Written by Cathymac about 6 years ago.

There are Saturday morning lit drops for Rep Wolf in Leesburg, Brambelton and Round Hill. No door knocking, merely footwork and leaving literature!

I do not want to post addresses here as they are individuals homes where people are meeting, but please contact me (via Joe) and I will forward the info if you are interested.

Less than 90 days till the election!

Written by sally about 6 years ago.

dans, I am looking for something that I think you posted, about EPA testing of the Potomac River, how it is improving… sorry OT, but would you mind posting it again?

thanks, Sally

Written by dans about 6 years ago.

Sally, this post :

This does seem a little fishy, given that a Potomac River monitoring station directly downriver from us at Chain Bridge has shown a significant downward trend in both nitrogen and sediment/solids :

why don’t you all just go to one of his town hall meetings and ask him questions yourselves. sitting around patting each other on the back isn’t getting you far. He went to a tea party debate and did pretty well there. Check him out for yourselves, get the truth, it won’t hurt much

Barnett had $66K on hand at the last filing…he has to whine, because if the Democrats actually do their “harsh triage” of who has a shot at winning and who doesn’t, then Barnett is going to be running on fumes very soon…

Written by Lovisa about 6 years ago.

“Wolf believes in accountability and the rule of law”
writes Kent Clizbe. As if Jeff Barnett doesn’t believe those same things!

Clizbe writes a LOT of things about Webb, and hints that they all also are valid for what Barnett stands for. No facts are stated.

There are moderate Democrats and there USED to be moderate Republicans and the two used to be able to agree on important decisions in Congress. Now it seems the moderates are forced out of the Republican party for wing-nuts.

Barnett’s background is rather impressive IMO. – Hasn’t Wolf been in office for too long?

Lovisa,
The fact is that regardless of a candidate’s impressive resume or personal presentation, if he runs as a Democrat, he will vote with the Democrats in Congress.
Just as Sen Webb has done, so would Barnett do.
As candidates, they look conservative, act conservative, talk conservative, but when they’re in, they vote with Obama, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi.

If he’s actually a conservative, then why doesn’t he run as a Republican?

Democrats cannot tell the truth about what they believe or plan, because Americans do not accept or want their programs or solutions. Their’s is an “agenda that dare not say its name.”

Barnett’s campaign is modeled on both Webb’s and Obama’s. Put on a respectable front, mouth bland pronouncements that anyone can interpret as they want. Don’t scare with conservatives with blatant liberal positions. Once elected, govern as a Democrat–liberal and statist.

Written by Lovisa about 6 years ago.

How do you know what Barnett will do, should he be elected?

I imagine, but don’t know, that Barnett wouldn’t want to run as Republican because the party has become so immovable in its position that compromise and agreements between the two parties seem impossible at this time.

It’s also possible that Barnett is a longtime Democrat and want to remain one.
How much do you really know about him, Kent?

Americans have flatly rejected Al Gore’s faith-based approach to science. The Obama/Pelosi/Reid anti-progress, anti-business, killer of American competitiveness in international markets has fallen by the wayside as the Democrats focus on other revenge measure against American business.

But Jeff Barnett is enthusiastic in support of taking a stick to nasty American job-providing businesses.

Want some more about what I know about Barnett?

Maybe the question is, what do you know about Jeff Barnett, Lovisa?

Written by dans about 6 years ago.

“Maybe the question is, what do you know about Jeff Barnett, Lovisa?”

There’s a ‘(D)’ after his name…

Written by Cathymac about 6 years ago.

Lovisa, If we look at trends, even with so called “blue dog” or moderate democrats, we can tell quite a bit. Rahm Emmanuel recruited dozens of “moderate/conservative” candidates to challenge Republicans in hand picked – essentially conservative – districts. These candidates ran in the 2006 and 2008 congressional races resulting in Obama’s huge majority. Simply put, the candidates appealed to the electorate.

While these “moderates” D’s ran as conservatives, they have voted en masse as liberals. Very few had the audacity to vote their conscience, or values, or principles, they simply did what the House Majority Leader told them to.

Given this track record, I’d put it at overwhelming odds that Barnett is a liberal in sheep’s clothing. He’s running on Obamacare – one of the few nitwits out there that will even acknowledge it. That he has a military background will not help him here. He is the same old, tired liberal – and there is nothing to suggest otherwise.

Written by Lovisa about 6 years ago.

Kent

I probably know as little about Barnett as you do. The fact that he’s for a change in the country’s health care proves to me that he’s a concerned citizen.

Cathymac

“Given his track record..” He has a track record? “He is the same old, tired liberal..”

I’ve met him. He’s anything but old and tired. He’s a refreshing new face in a district that has voted for the same “old, tired” Republican year after year, who travels the world to help folks abroad, maybe more than he does his constituents.

He has the nerve to quote “Blue Virginia” about how Wolf voted against Virginia’s getting $540B from the Education Jobs Fund. Of course, there is no mention of the fact that it would have COST Virginians over $300B in new taxes, or put us that much further in debt.

Later, he makes unfounded assertions that, “The super-wealthy not only pay a lower percentage in income tax; they also pay a smaller percentage in capital gains tax. No wonder we have a federal deficit.” The truth is that the wealthy pay a higher percentage of their income in taxes: http://www.cbo.gov/publications/collections/collections.cfm?collect=13

He’s running as a Democrat. The Obama/Pelosi/Reid clique requires complete obsequiance to the Party Line. Every Democrat is required to follow the Party Line, or face the wrath of their enforcers. If you don’t believe it, ask those Democrats who dared to voice potential concerns with Obamacare, and Obama’s other power grabs.

As this thread started out, Barnett is simply a Webb clone. The Democrats think they’ve discovered the magic formula. It worked for Obama; it worked for Webb. Hide your real plans behind vague feel-good formulations. Lie about your actual plans when pressed.

But like Obama’s slip to Joe the Plumber (“spread the wealth around”), Barnett slipped up, probably during the Democrat primary, and has admitted he is a fanatical Obamacare supporter.

Barnett also admits he is a fanatical supporter of Cap-and-trade and energy taxes.

So, he has a “fresh face.” So was Obama’s face fresh. So was Webb’s face fresh. Fresh faces don’t make policy–the Democrat machine from Chicago makes policy.

He’s a Democrat. That tells you all you need to know about Barnett.

Even Jeff himself knows that being a Democrat is a bad thing. Look at his campaign website. Where does it say that he’s a Democrat? Not until scrolling through five screens of text do you find the word “Democrat.”

What’s he hiding? Why’s he hiding? Ashamed to be a rabid Obama supporter? Ashamed to be a wanna be member of Nancy Pelosi’s gang? Ashamed to be known as a Harry Reid collaborator?

Written by Lovisa about 6 years ago.

Jack -

“Barnett is an idiot”. Wow, he has certainly done very well “being an idiot”, don’t you think?

Kent – What do think his “acutal plans” are? You’re using “fanatical” a lot.

I think you can get a few clues about what Barnett’s plans are from his own website:

“Green jobs”: As your Congressman, I will initially focus on green jobs

Even Obama has dropped the “Green jobs” claims from his schtick. After Obama’s massive stimulus spending, which sent billions overseas for Chinese and Indians to build windmills, and poured billions more into unaccountable window caulking projects, even Barack Obama seems to be embarrassed to talk about those elusive “Green jobs” that he swore he’d deliver to his faithful flock.

But Jeff Barnett continues with the schtick.

Something a little more alarming, once you start looking into it, is Barnett’s involvement with Alvin Toffler. This is what Barnett refers to as “…when I was in business as a corporate advisor.”

Toffler has a slick scam going, much like Obama. He huffs and puffs about “change” and recycles Marxist metaphors, and packages it slickly to sell to government and industry.

We might want to dig a bit deeper into the whole Toffler organization to see what Jeff learned there.

As for fanatical. Read his own words. He comes off as a fanatic about the liberal issues.

Written by Cathymac about 6 years ago.

Fine Lovisa – “Given his stmts” – not “given his record” – he is you exactly how he is going to vote. With Obama and Pelosi.

Yes, Lovisa, I do have friends who are Democrats. They are idiots, but they are likable idiots.

Written by dans about 6 years ago.

“The fact that he’s for a change in the country’s health care proves to me that he’s a concerned citizen.”

Supporting the robbing of Peter to pay Paul is indicative of a concerned citizen ? Guess Paul and only Paul would agree with that..

Written by Kate about 6 years ago.

Back to the article, I don’t think any Democrat or liberal is hiding his or her agenda. Everything you listed as being in disguise is actually the Democratic agenda. Just because you don’t like it doesn’t make it a secret, underground conspiracy. Most Democrats are liberal – that’s not a surprise to anyone, just as most Republicans are conservative. If you’re going to write a salacious article, could it actually be about some big secret? This is just boring.

Unfortunately not everyone is as savvy, or plugged-in as you seem to be. You’re welcome not to read or comment if your ennui-meter is pegged. Otherwise, happy to answer your bored comments.

Democrats are running helter-skelter, as fast as they can away from Obamacare. Is it a “secret, underground conspiracy?” Probably not, but it’s a fact.

Try these links, if you’re able to pull out of your boredom and click a couple times. If you’re too bored to click, I’ll paste in a quote or two:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704644404575482122517174884.html?mod=djemEditorialPage_t
“Health care? A total of 279 House and Senate Democrats voted for ObamaCare. Not one is running an ad touting that vote. How can they, given headlines about Medicare cuts and premium hikes? You will, however, find a growing catalogue of ads such as this one from Maryland Rep. Frank Kratovil: “As a career prosecutor, I made decisions on facts, not politics,” and that’s why “I voted against . . . the health-care bill.”

Not to be outdone, Alabama Rep. Bobby Bright’s ad explains he voted against “massive government health care.” South Dakota’s Stephanie Herseth Sandlin boasts she voted against the “trillion-dollar health-care plan.” But the prize goes to former Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes, vying to get his old job back: Not only is ObamaCare “financially devastating,” it is “the greatest failure, modern failure, of political leadership in my lifetime.”

“Health care? A total of 279 House and Senate Democrats voted for ObamaCare. Not one is running an ad touting that vote. How can they, given headlines about Medicare cuts and premium hikes? You will, however, find a growing catalogue of ads such as this one from Maryland Rep. Frank Kratovil: “As a career prosecutor, I made decisions on facts, not politics,” and that’s why “I voted against . . . the health-care bill.”

Not to be outdone, Alabama Rep. Bobby Bright’s ad explains he voted against “massive government health care.” South Dakota’s Stephanie Herseth Sandlin boasts she voted against the “trillion-dollar health-care plan.” But the prize goes to former Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes, vying to get his old job back: Not only is ObamaCare “financially devastating,” it is “the greatest failure, modern failure, of political leadership in my lifetime.”

Most of the Democrats running ads highlighting their opposition to the law are in conservative-leaning districts and considered the most endangered. They’re using their vote against the overhaul as proof of their willingness to buck party leadership and their commitment to watching the nation’s debt.”

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Fact is that Democrats are terrified of admitting that they are liberal! And there’s a good reason for that–Americans are more conservative than we are liberal. Especially today after Americans have had a chance to see, for the first time in a couple generations, a true “Progressive” liberal.

So, as I mentioned in the article, Jeff Barnett tries to look like a solid, conservative, ex-military family man, with the implication to those who don’t have the time or wherewithal to dig a little deeper than the surface, that he is conservative.

That is the Democrat strategy. Look conservative. Lie about, or obfuscate, your actual voting record, bring home the bacon, and try to fool enough people so you can get elected. Then, when they’re elected, they simply toe Obama/Pelosi/Reid party line.

It worked for Jim Webb. It ain’t gonna work for Jeff Barnett.

Hope that helps you get a little interested, and dulled your boredom.

If not, great. Stay bored, and keep your liberal friends bored. Go watch a Seinfeld rerun, the news on the Comedy Channel, a Youtube of Colbert’s Congressional testimony, your DVR’ed version of Obama’s “the seas will fall” speech, and commisserate with your friends as the conservative tide washes across Loudoun, Virginia, and the USA.

As goes Loudoun County, so goes America. We (or at least some of us) were snowed by lying liberals Obama and Webb in 2008. But, Loudoun was then among the first to reject the lying liberal agenda–our massive swing to Governor McDonnell in the election last year; then our rejection of liberal Republicans in our District this year. Next up–massive rejection of the Webb clone liberal Democrat Jeff Barnett.

You read it here first!

Kent

Written by Kate about 6 years ago.

I never identified myself as a democrat or a liberal. And what’s with randomly relating me to TV programs?

You make a much better point in your summation here. In the article, you say nothing of the like. You mention all his positions, and then they say his positions don’t match up with him being a retired military and government employee. The assumption that Democrats are “are terrified of admitting that they are liberal” is one of your own making as it is stated in the article.

Now, when you talk about them not wanting to stand up for healthcare reform, that makes more sense. But notice that healthcare reform has nothing to do with Jeff, as of yet, making the argument moot.

As for anything but healthcare, it seems to me that Jeff is saying he is former military and has these positions. One does not forsake the other.

I assume you are not up for opposing views and would rather discussions with like-minded individuals. I’ll leave you to that. Take care and good luck.
Kate

Written by BlackOut about 6 years ago.

Damn Kate That is the most succinct statement I’ve heard in a long time. Well done.

“I assume you are not up for opposing views and would rather discussions with like-minded individuals. I’ll leave you to that. Take care and good luck.”

Written by Lovisa about 6 years ago.

Agree whole heartedly with Kate and BlackOut.
Cathymac also seems not to be up for opposing views. She has stated several times that there’s no place for BlackOut and to stay away.

Kent’s comments about certain TV programs are infantile and inane. BTW, is Seinfeld still on?

Written by Dans about 6 years ago.

It is not that cmac is not up for opposing views, I would tend to believe, from reading her posts, is that she is not up for buying unsubstantiated views. Little of what was said to her has a basis in reality.

” But notice that healthcare reform has nothing to do with Jeff, as of yet, making the argument moot.”

Anyone familiar with Barnett’s web site know he is on record as stating he would have voted for health care had he been in Congress. This firmly establishes that health care has everything to do with Barnett for the majority of Americans and 10th districts voters that are opposed to Obamacare.

Written by Cathymac about 6 years ago.

I don’t care if someone has opposing views, I just don’t want leftists in my party arguing for change. So yes, in that respect I want Black Out to stay away. He can support Barnett, Obama, all the leftists he wants – that is his right – but when he starts telling republicans we “must” do x, y or z to get our candidates elected – I’ll tell him to stuff it.

This has been a fascinating conversation, and I appreciate the kind criticism from the left. Your inclusive and caring attempts to help me see the error of my thinking is reminiscent of Obama’s “we won, get over it!” liberal rhetoric of love and understanding.

It hit me last night, while pondering Barnett’s ill-timed candidacy, that there may be a method in his madness. No real candidate in a swing district (that voted for Obama in 08, but is represented by a long-time Republican) who hoped to actually win would cement himself to the failed regime like Barnett does. His toadying to Obama continues, at least on his website.

It seems that he’s trying to impress the Obama adminstration with his lapdog loyalty. Remember Tim Kaine’s toadying to Obama? It got him the chairmanship of the DNC. Look for Barnett to lobby for something in DoD, or State, or maybe, building on his Toffler experience, the Department of the Future.

But it’s clear he is unelectable (this year), and it’s also clear that he is not running away from Obama as the real Democrat candidates are this year.

Sort of an interesting strategy, but might as well make a positive of a negative.